Global Studies: Gender, Difference, and Power Emphasis
Available starting August 2026
Description
Global Studies: Gender, Difference, and Power emphasis embodies a transdisciplinary feminist study of everything. We seek to understand, question, and resist systems of power, hate, othering, and oppression (such as colonization, imperialism, racialization, patriarchy) and their effects. We offer small, engaged, and creative discussion-based courses where students think about how things are, how they became this way, and envision a world that is not yet here. In this emphasis, students have the freedom to question and dream.
Students become critical thinkers, cutting-edge researchers, and transformative and collaborative leaders who, upon graduation, work in fields including law, public policy, healthcare, education, human services, science and technology, and the arts.
Learning Outcome
Students will be able to analyze the coproduction of gender, difference, and power.
Emphasis Courses
AFAS/GWS 306: African-American Autobiographies: Women and Their Histories
AIS/GWS 450: American Indian Women
ANTH/GWS 303: Language, Gender and Sexuality
ENGL/GWS 418: Women and Literature
GEOG/GWS 372: Geography & Gender
GWS 150B1: Gender & Contemporary Society
GWS 150B2: Sex, Health and AIDS
GWS 150B4: LGBTQ Studies
GWS 160C1: Technology & Society: Introduction to Science & Technology Studies
GWS 200: Gender, Identity, and Power
GWS/GLS 240: Gender in Transnational World
GWS/GLS 260: Sex, Gender, and Technology
GWS 300: Special Topics in Gender and Women's Studies
GWS 305: Feminist Theories
GWS/MAS 307: Chicana Feminisms: History, Theory and Practice
GWS 309: Queer Theories
GWS 310: Transgender Studies
GWS/ENG/MAS 312: Latina/o Pop: Race, Gender, Sexuality & Popular Culture
GWS 317: Science Fiction Studies
GWS 325: Gender, Sexuality & Borders
GWS/MAS 358:U.S. 3rd World Feminisms: Theory, History, Practice
GWS/HIST/POL 386: Race/Gender: Genealogies, Formations, Politic
GWS 391: Preceptorship
GWS 393: Internship
GWS 399: Independent Study
GWS 399H: Honors Independent Study
GWS 400: Special Topics in Women's Studies
GWS/ENG/MAS 407: Writing Queer Autohistoria
GWS 425: Gender, Culture and Capitalism
GWS/ARH 430: Queer Cinema
GWS/ANTH/HIS 469T: Queer--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender--Histories of North America
GWS/ANTH/HPS/PHP/SOC 487: Feminist Interpretations of Health
GWS 493: Internship
GWS 493L: Legislative Internship
GWS/ANTH/ENGL/HIST 496P: Women's Life Writing: Autobiography, Diary, Oral History, Biography....
GWS 498H: Honors Thesis
GWS 499: Independent Study
GWS 499H: Honors Independent Study
HIST/GWS 457A: Manhood and Masculinity in the United States
HIST/GWS 469: Gender and Sexuality in Latin American History
HRTS/GWS 320: Gender-Based Violence and Human Rights
JUS/GWS/RELI 321: Women In Judaism
JUS/ANTH/GWS/RELI 449: Women In Ancient Israel
JUS/GWS/MENA 452: Israeli Women
LAS/ANTH/GWS/RELI 316: Sex and Salvation in Latin America
LAS/GWS 460: Film and Feminism in Latin America
MAS/GWS 485: Mexicana/Chicana Women's History
MENA/GWS 463: Gender Issues and Women's Literature in the Middle East
MENA/ANTH/GWS 490: Women in Middle Eastern Society
SGPP/GWS 335: Gender and Politics